Takamure Itsue
Japanese poet, activist-writer, feminist, anarchist, ethnologist, and historian
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Dorothe Engelbretsdatter
Norwegian author who principally wrote hymns and strongly religious poems and is often considered the first female professional writer.
Olivia Ward Bush-Banks
African-American author, poet, and playwright, celebrated for her contributions to African American and Native American literature.
Jane Liddiard
Irish poet
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Canadian author best known for her series of novels beginning with “Anne of Green Gables,” published in 1908.
Radclyffe Hall
Distinguished English poet and author renowned for her pioneering novel, “The Well of Loneliness,” a groundbreaking position in lesbian literature.
Mary Sidney
Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, was a distinguished Englishwoman known for her poetry and literary support.
Muriel Rukeyser
Renowned Jewish-American writer known for her poetry, essays, biographies, and active political engagement, focusing on themes like equity, women’s rights, social justice, and her Jewish heritage.
Rita F Dove
American poet who served as Poet Laureate Consultant to the Library of Congress.
Marya Chéliga-Loevy
Polish-French writer, playwright, feminist and pacifist.